That was so full of lies that even the GOP rebelled.
I have to wonder who is believing him?
I personally liked Joe's speech better...
How people behave under pressure is telling...
In Trump's case it indicates he is a toddler having a tantrum because his toy is being taken away after he did not take good care of it. :-)
This explains it well. And here is another.
Laurie asked... "Why do you think the democrats have trouble getting people to vote for them - that they almost lost the election to a terrible president / candidate?"
My answer is fairly simple... Biden and the DEM Party's relatively progressive platform.
As long as the DEMs seemingly want to:
I am pretty sure the DEMs will have a hard time winning over more moderate states / districts. Socialism is the wrong word, but Progressive DEMs seem unapologetic about their believing that everyone is "owed" a bunch of things that many of us believe people should work for.
And unfortunately some of his crazier followers likely believe him... :-(
But the Blue Wave did not seem to materialize either.
At least turnout was very good, which should be celebrated.
Hold tight and be patient... This could take a long time...
I am used to Trump supporting physically confrontations between citizens for his benefit, but I am very disappointed that seemingly Marco Rubio joined in when he praised the Texas road confrontation incident.
Then of course we have other Trump supporters shutting down highways just like some other protesters that they vilify.
The good news is that the GOP Voter Suppression efforts seem to be failing. Here is an interesting summary of the current voter suppression techniques being used by Trump etal. And another.
I guess Trump's theory is that if he can not gain their trust and support, just make sure their voices can not be heard. Kind of what he has tried to do with everyone that has left his staff.
Or so one of my friends believe. Yes he actually appeared to be serious. And no I did not try to convince him otherwise, since voter turnout is everything in these elections. And I have no sense if the often dead beat DEM supporters like Biden or hate Trump enough to get to the polls.
Personally I think it is going to be a Blue Wave because Trump has effectively pissed off or disgusted everyone except his base... (see comic) Touch to zoom and read FrankenBiden parts.
I just think of all the Moderate Independents and Republicans like myself who were going to give him a chance because of our dislike / distrust of Clinton. And how he totally failed at being honest, professional, fiscally conservative, showing humility, showing empathy, etc. So I know that is literally millions of votes that Trump lost...
I am very interested in what happens Tuesday? I am hoping it is a blow out for Biden, so we can soon put this unfortunate experiment behind us like MN put Jesse Venture behind it. And I think Jesse was far smarter, more honest and more professional than Trump. :-)
Government Spend Props Up GDP.
Of course that huckster Trump in trying to sell it as a huge rebound.
Now will the Trump True Believers drink the Kool Aid or will they remember that this is just the $3 Trillion of stolen money propping up a looming disaster?
I know this probably will not surprise anyone, but the FOX News coverage does not even note how the CARES Act drove these numbers. And that without the next stimulus (ie theft from kids) and with COVID numbers growing, things are going to get rough.
It will be interesting if he is the is one of the only Presidents to see negative GDP growth during his term in office. :-) :-(
I am frustrated that this topic never showed up in the debates.
One would think that the media and DEMs would want to remind the voters that most of Trump's "economic success" was stolen from our kids... I mean it is easy to grow an economy if you cut taxes, increase spending and borrow TRILLIONs.
Some simple math: $1,000,000,000,000 / 330,000,000 =
$2,778 / citizen (man, woman and child) or
maybe about $8,334 / household.
And Trump's government has stolen 8 times that from our kids...
(ie $22K per person, $66K per household)
No wonder current citizens feel wealthier and the economy boomed, they avoided paying a ton of bills and put it on the plastic.
How did we become so selfish as a people? :-(
A Conservative Friend who Loves Trump posted the bolded text below.
It started me wondering who these people are that Hate the USA?
My simplistic answer would be the folks on the Far Left and Far Right. I mean both seem very unhappy with the USA as it is today.
The Far Left folks think Medicaid, welfare, free K-12 public education and a lot of other educational programs for the poor folks is NOT nearly generous enough. And they want to give government even more collection and distribution powers.
The Far Right folks of course think it is terrible that a woman gets to choose, the LGBTQ folks have equal rights / protections, that freedom of religion means freedom of all religions, that they have to pay enough taxes to avoid deficit spending, etc. And they seem to want to turn the USA into some Christian form of Sharia law and keep spending more than they pay.
Another friend pointed me to this wonderful interview with Thomas Friedman. Here is a wonderful portion.
“Only one thing worse, in my view, than one-party autocracy, which China has, is one-party democracy.” That’s because it is unable to produce the compromises that are embedded in America’s constitutional system.
Friedman says we are “undermining truth and trust and destroying our cognitive community— our ability to sort out fact from fiction— and our social community—our ability to come together to do big, hard things.”
“Politics has to be about something other than itself,” he said. “Politics has to have meaning and be productive.”
If Joe Biden is elected, Friedman would like him to form a “national unity government.”
“I hope the current version of the Republican party is crushed. I hope it fractures between the Trump cult and the moderate Republicans, and you get a whole new center.”
“For the health of conservative ideology,” Friedman says, “this Trump version has to be destroyed.”
Of course, this friend is pretty Progressive so he interpreted "Unity Government" to be Left Leaning. So I had to crush his dream by noting that a "Unity Government" would need to be made up of the "Happy People" from both sides. Those of use who think the USA is wonderful the way it is, and that only minor continuing adjustments should be made to make it better.
Unfortunately I fear that we are doomed to continue bouncing between "one-party autocracies" every 4 or eight years. :-(
How could ND & SD have screwed this up SO BAD?
I mean they have very few urban areas, no international airports, little public transit and by definition most of the residents spend most of their lives "social distanced". And yet there case rates have exceeded urban states and their death rate is catching up quickly.
Apparently sticking one's head in the sand does not protect one from catching a virus.
though I gave up listening after about 20 minutes. The continuous lies and political talk seemed to offer nothing new. In fact, I assume that is why the fact checking was so fast... They just need to "copy and paste"... :-)
Since FOX News does no "Fact Check", here is their spin / coverage.
Of course the other recent news is Trump attacking Leslie Stahl / 60 Minutes and violating his agreement with CBS. I can not wait to see what the 60 Minutes staff present on Sunday night...
According to Liz Peek.
Regarding potential Hunter Biden Emails.
I of course am suspect of any thing the Rudy Giuliani releases 3 weeks before the election after holding it for almost a year. And why didn't FOX jump on the story?
Finally, do I care? I am not sure given how the Trump's are using their relations to Trump to benefit financially. It is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. Thoughts?
That is for sure. And Trump certainly did not grow into a President that would unite and empower America. And he has surrounded himself with incompetent people...
And he continues rallies as COVID case numbers sky rocket and deaths remain at ~750 per day...
So 2020 certainly is not 2016... And maybe the pollsters learned some stuff from 2016.
David Brooks mentioned on the PBS News hour tonight that he has been talking to Trump supporters who he thinks are totally unprepared for the high likelihood that Trump will lose the Presidency.
Apparently the Trump Supporters are under that delusion that there are many Trump Supporters who have been lying to the pollsters, and that he really is not as unpopular as everyone reports.
It is strange how confident they are in this bad bet. Of course they trust what Trump says, so I guess they are somewhat delusional.
Now what will they do if Trump loses and pops their delusion?
